Which gallery hosted Andy Warhol’s first solo Pop Art exhibition in 1962?

Ferus Gallery hosted Andy Warhol’s first solo Pop Art exhibition in 1962. The exhibition took place in Los Angeles and presented his early paintings of consumer products, including Campbell’s Soup cans.

The Ferus Gallery was founded in Los Angeles in 1957 by artist Walter Hopps and the artist Irving Blum. It became a major venue for contemporary art on the West Coast and helped introduce important developments in American Pop Art to Los Angeles audiences.

Warhol’s Campbell’s Soup show was a landmark because it treated an ordinary supermarket product as a subject worthy of fine-art attention. The exhibition helped establish the visual language of repetition, branding, and mass production that became closely associated with his career.

Some accounts emphasize New York galleries when discussing Warhol’s rise, especially Stable Gallery, which hosted his 1962 exhibition of Campbell’s Soup Can paintings later that year. Ferus Gallery is specifically associated with his first solo Pop Art exhibition, while Stable Gallery became important for his New York presentation.